diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7a467f7..ce8609f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ dist
 AUTHORS
 ChangeLog
 releasenotes/build
+.idea/
diff --git a/cloudkittyclient/tests/functional/base.py b/cloudkittyclient/tests/functional/base.py
index b1d0489..444017d 100644
--- a/cloudkittyclient/tests/functional/base.py
+++ b/cloudkittyclient/tests/functional/base.py
@@ -15,26 +15,57 @@
 #
 import json
 import os
-import shlex
 import subprocess
 
 from cloudkittyclient.tests import utils
 
+from oslo_log import log
+
+LOG = log.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 class BaseFunctionalTest(utils.BaseTestCase):
 
+    # DevStack is using VENV by default. Therefore, to execute the commands,
+    # we need to activate the VENV. And, to do that, we need the VENV path.
+    # This path is hardcoded here because we could not find a variable in this
+    # Python code to retrieve the VENV variable from the test machine.
+    # It seems that because of the stack TOX -> stestr -> this python code, and
+    # so on, we are not able to access the DevStack variables here.
+    #
+    # If somebody finds a solution, we can remove the hardcoded path here.
+    DEV_STACK_VENV_BASE_PATH = "/opt/stack/data/venv"
+
+    BASE_COMMAND_WITH_VENV = "source %s/bin/activate && %s "
+
     def _run(self, executable, action,
              flags='', params='', fmt='-f json', stdin=None, has_output=True):
         if not has_output:
             fmt = ''
+
+        does_venv_exist = not os.system("ls -lah /opt/stack/data/venv")
+        LOG.info("Test to check if the VENV file exist returned: [%s].",
+                 does_venv_exist)
+
+        system_variables = os.environ.copy()
+        LOG.info("System variables [%s] found when executing the tests.",
+                 system_variables)
+
         cmd = ' '.join([executable, flags, action, params, fmt])
-        cmd = shlex.split(cmd)
+
+        actual_command_with_venv = self.BASE_COMMAND_WITH_VENV % (
+            self.DEV_STACK_VENV_BASE_PATH, cmd)
+
+        LOG.info("Command being executed: [%s].", actual_command_with_venv)
+
         p = subprocess.Popen(
-            cmd, env=os.environ.copy(), shell=False,
-            stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
-            stdin=subprocess.PIPE if stdin else None,
+            ["bash", "-c", actual_command_with_venv],
+            env=os.environ.copy(), shell=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+            stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE if stdin else None
         )
         stdout, stderr = p.communicate(input=stdin)
+        LOG.info("Standard output [%s] and error output [%s] for command "
+                 "[%s]. ", stdout, stderr, actual_command_with_venv)
         if p.returncode != 0:
             raise RuntimeError('"{cmd}" returned {val}: {msg}'.format(
                 cmd=' '.join(cmd), val=p.returncode, msg=stderr))
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index ef4327d..455afda 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ basepython = python3
 usedevelop = True
 install_command = pip install -U {opts} {packages}
 setenv =
+   DEVSTACK_VENV={env:DEVSTACK_VENV}
    VIRTUAL_ENV={envdir}
 deps = -r{toxinidir}/requirements.txt
        -r{toxinidir}/test-requirements.txt
@@ -29,12 +30,40 @@ commands =
 commands = oslo_debug_helper -t cloudkittyclient/tests {posargs}
 
 [testenv:functional-v1]
-passenv = OS_CLOUD OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_ID OS_USER_DOMAIN_ID OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME OS_PROJECT_NAME OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION OS_PASSWORD OS_AUTH_TYPE OS_AUTH_URL OS_USERNAME OS_ENDPOINT
+passenv =
+      OS_CLOUD
+      OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_ID
+      OS_USER_DOMAIN_ID
+      OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME
+      OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME
+      OS_PROJECT_NAME
+      OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION
+      OS_PASSWORD
+      OS_AUTH_TYPE
+      OS_AUTH_URL
+      OS_USERNAME
+      OS_ENDPOINT
+      DEVSTACK_VENV
+      VIRTUAL_ENV
 setenv = OS_RATING_API_VERSION=1
 commands = stestr run --concurrency=1 --test-path ./cloudkittyclient/tests/functional/v1
 
 [testenv:functional-v2]
-passenv = OS_CLOUD OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_ID OS_USER_DOMAIN_ID OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME OS_PROJECT_NAME OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION OS_PASSWORD OS_AUTH_TYPE OS_AUTH_URL OS_USERNAME OS_ENDPOINT
+passenv = 
+      OS_CLOUD
+      OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_ID
+      OS_USER_DOMAIN_ID
+      OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME
+      OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME
+      OS_PROJECT_NAME
+      OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION
+      OS_PASSWORD
+      OS_AUTH_TYPE
+      OS_AUTH_URL
+      OS_USERNAME
+      OS_ENDPOINT
+      DEVSTACK_VENV
+      VIRTUAL_ENV
 setenv = OS_RATING_API_VERSION=2
 commands = stestr run --concurrency=1 --test-path ./cloudkittyclient/tests/functional/v2